Towards a high performance extensible Grid architecture

Grid computing systems are being positioned as the high performance computing infrastructure of the future that will be used to solve grand challenge problems and also provide the infrastructure for wide area distributed network computing. The architecture of the Grid will determine if it will meet these challenges. We propose a Grid architecture that is secure, high performance and extensible. It is based on the concept of a small, lightweight Grid kernel that provides uniform resource management services and runs on both traditional network equipment and host computers. More comprehensive Grid services are layered on top of the Grid kernel.